Drimia anomala (Baker) Baker

Plants deciduous, solitary or rarely clumped. Bulb subglobose to ovoid, 25-70(-100) mm diam., scales tightly packed, outer scales thinly leathery, persisting in short or long, thick papery neck or collar with transverse abscission lines, flesh whitish to pink. Leaf usually synanthous, solitary (rarely 2), suberect, cylindrical, 170-300 x (2)3-5(-10) mm, dark green, obtuse but withering from apex via transverse abscission plates, glabrous, sheathing base with broad, chestnut brown, papery margins. Inflorescence a moderately dense, elongate raceme 200-500(-600) mm tall, 15-to 80(100)-flowered, flowers sometimes in clusters, mostly 2-5 mm apart; scape glabrous, 1.5-5.0 mm diam.; bracts ovate-deltoid, 1.0-1.5 mm long, lowest with short spur 1-2(-5) mm long; pedicels spreading, (2-)3-5(-8) mm long; bracteoles absent. Flowers spreading, rotate or shallowly campanulate, unscented [scented fide Jessop 1977)]; tepals connate ± 1 mm, lobes either suberect below or spreading to slightly recurved from the base, elliptic to oblong, 4-5 x 1.5 mm, apices penicillate, white, yellowish or greenish to pale pink, with darker dorsal stripe, unscented. Filaments suberect or weakly spreading, subulate, 2.5-3.0 mm long, pale. Anthers medifixed, oblong, ± 1 mm long, yellowish green. Ovary ovoid-truncate to ellipsoid, 1.5-2.0 mm long, green; style columnar, 1.5-2.0 mm long, white; stigma truncate-papillate. Capsules ovoid to ellipsoid, obtuse to truncate, 4-6 mm long. Seeds strongly angled, 1.5-2.0 mm long, testa minutely reticulate.